Industrial gases merchant wholesalers · Illinois

PDI - Hillside

Hillside, IL · ~51 workers · 5 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
3.8
Avg TCR
2.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

PDI - Hillside runs at 171% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Industrial gases merchant wholesalers workplace, earning a grade D.

PDI - Hillside: 3.8 TCR = 171% of Industrial gases merchant wholesalers BLS 2.2 · 5y Form 300A (see methodology below)

PDI - Hillside safety composite

PDI - Hillside scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 13%), blended into one 0-100 breakdown against same-industry peers. A missing measure drops out and redistributes its weight rather than deflating the score. This is a per-dimension breakdown, distinct from the single letter grade above it (which weights TCR alone against the BLS industry benchmark).

F

26/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 3.76 per 100 workers

Safer than 23% of industry peers

DART rate
F 4.18 per 100 workers

Safer than 13% of industry peers

Fatalities
D 0

Safer than 50% of industry peers

Benchmarked live against every credibly-rated employer in the same NAICS industry code in the current OSHA extract (a segment must have at least 8 rated peers to benchmark). Not a legal or compliance determination; PlainSafetyScore's own weighting (TCR 40%, DART 35%, fatalities 25%).

TCR Δ

−1.0

2016→2020

PDI - Hillside injury rate improved

PDI - Hillside's TCR fell 1.0 from 5.2 in 2016 to 4.2 in 2020. Peak filing year was 2018 at 7.5 TCR. In 2020, DART was 1.11× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=5.2 · 2017=0.0 · 2018=7.5 · 2019=1.9 · 2020=4.2

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 424690 · Hillside, IL ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 3.8 · 171% of ind

  • DART 4.2 DART
  • RANK #30/38
  • PHOTO Wayne
  • BOOK 5y book
  • INJ 10 inj
  • SIZE ~51 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Wayne (0.0 TCR gap)

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PDI - Hillside in the TCR neighbourhood

Average Total Case Rate among this establishment and nearest same-industry peers

TCR

What this shows PDI - Hillside averages 3.8 TCR (171% of the Industrial gases merchant wholesalers BLS benchmark).

Source U.S. Department of Labor, OSHA Injury Tracking Application (Form 300A) As of 2026-08-25

PDI - Hillside TCR series: 2016=5.2 · 2017=0 · 2018=7.5 · 2019=1.9 · 2020=4.2 · BLS 2.2

Where PDI - Hillside falls in its industry

766 Industrial gases merchant whol establishments

Safer than 23% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 1.9.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Illinois alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #30 safest of 38 Industrial gases merchant whol employers in Illinois.

PDI - Hillside (51 employees, TCR 3.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 38 employees and a TCR of 1.9 2×2 strategic matrix plotting 30 entities by Average employees (X) and Total Case Rate (Y), with a crosshair dividing the plot into four quadrants. Larger & higher-riskSmaller & higher-riskLarger & saferSmaller & safer than peers 050100150200 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate PDI - Hillside
PDI - Hillside (51 employees, TCR 3.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 38 employees and a TCR of 1.9

PDI - Hillside has more employees than the Industrial gases merchant wholesalers median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 1.9. Workforce size and injury rate do not always move together within the same industry -- some of its smaller peers run higher rates than its larger ones, and vice versa.

Year-by-Year Safety Data

Year TCR DART Injuries Illnesses Fatalities
2020 4.2 4.2 2 0 0
2019 1.9 1.9 1 0 0
2018 7.5 7.5 4 0 0
2017 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2016 5.2 5.2 3 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

424690 · IL · Hillside

766 Industrial gases merchant wholesalers employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,804 rated employers in Illinois with headcount on file · 43 employers in Hillside, IL · 4 cross-state NAT-TCR peers · 4 cross-state NAT-SIZE peers. Closest matches by relationship code are listed below.

Rel Establishment Metric
NAICS-TCR Wayne 3.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR JCI Torrance 3.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Praxair Distribution Brookfield WI 3.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Commonwealth Industrial Services, Inc. 3.8 TCR
STATE-SIZE Larch Farm 51 FTE
STATE-SIZE CDG 51 FTE
STATE-SIZE Prince Minerals LLC - QUI 51 FTE
STATE-SIZE AMEREN ILLINOIS - Quincy 51 FTE
CITY-NEAR Hillside 1 414 FTE
CITY-NEAR 5132-SEG1-5132 335 FTE
CITY-NEAR FedEx 300 CRAIG PLACE 317 FTE
CITY-NEAR Hillside 2 289 FTE
NAT-TCR FL109 3.8 TCR
NAT-TCR 1073 Douglasville, Ga 3.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Ross store 1854 3.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Ross store 1706 3.8 TCR
NAT-SIZE 103 - North Kansas City Retail Store 51 FTE
NAT-SIZE Surface Protection Services, LLC 51 FTE
NAT-SIZE The ServiCenter, Inc. dba Valair Aviation 51 FTE
NAT-SIZE Melbourne Biotest Plasma Center 51 FTE

Rel codes: NAICS-TCR · STATE-SIZE · CITY-NEAR · NAT-TCR/NAT-SIZE cross-state. Read with this employer →

Data Source: OSHA Injury Tracking Application (ITA), mandatory establishment-level injury/illness reports. Grades compare employer Total Case Rate (TCR) to BLS IIF industry benchmarks. Data covers years reported by this establishment: 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.

Read our methodology - how this data is sourced, computed, and verified.

Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.